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Turkey arrests DBP Co-chair Tuncel

Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Co-chairperson Sebahat Tuncel, who was taken to a hospital after police intervened in a demonstration in front of the Diyarbakır...

Erdoğan says goal of ‘imprudent’ HDP politicians to cause trouble for Turkey

In his first remarks on the arrest of nine politicians from Turkey's second largest opposition party, the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), President Recep...

Dozens detained in İstanbul, Adana during demonstrations in protest of HDP arrests

Turkish police have detained around 100 people in İstanbul and Adana provinces who took to the streets to protest the arrest of pro-Kurdish Peoples'...

PKK offshoot TAK claims responsibility for Diyarbakır bombing

The Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (TAK), an offshoot of the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), has claimed responsibility for a deadly car bomb attack in...

HDP decides to halt parliamentary work due to crackdown on party

The pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) has decided to withdraw from parliamentary work following the arrest of nine of its deputies including the party's...

Report: Purge risks isolating Turkey’s higher education from int’l academia

Turkey’s purge of academics has already harmed the reputation of its higher education sector, the latest Free to Think report from the New York-based Scholars at Risk (SAR)...

Turkish gov’t planning slaughter of jailed Gülen followers in staged riot, lawyer claims

The Turkish government is headed for mass killings of people jailed over alleged or real links to the Gülen movement, in a staged riot...

Gülen movement now blamed for police violence during Gezi protests

In yet another example of scapegoating the Gülen movement for any wrongdoing in Turkey or in anywhere else in the world, ruling Justice and...

Kurds take to the streets of European cities to protest Erdoğan, HDP arrests

The Kurdish diaspora living in Europe took to the streets of various European capitals on Saturday to protest the detention and subsequent arrest of...

1,000 staff members added to personnel of Erdoğan’s palace

In addition to security personnel, 1,804 people work at the controversial presidential palace of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Presidential Secretary-General Fahri Kasırga has said,...

Officer purged from military after coup attempt found dead in prison

İrfan Kızılarslan, a former colonel who was dismissed from the military and arrested following a failed coup on July 15 due to alleged involvement...

After ISIL claims Diyarbakır attack, Turkey insists it was PKK

Following the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) claiming responsibility for a deadly car bomb attack on a police station on Friday,...

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